Dozens of Iranians have e-mailed Yad Vashem since the site's launch 12 days ago seeking more Holocaust information.

About 20,000 people from throughout the world, including 6,000 from Iran, have visited Yad Vashem's Farsi-language Web site since its launch just 12 days ago.

Dozens of Iranian visitors to the site have sent e-mails to Yad Vashem asking for more information on the Holocaust.

Yad Vashem officials stressed that this is a record number of visitors, and equals the annual number of visitors to the English-language Web site.

The Farsi-language site includes 20 chronologically arranged sections, each of which includes dozens of pictures spanning from the Nazi's rise to power to the post-war trials of Nazi criminals. The site also includes information on Yad Vashem, including its structure, objectives and activities.

"Providing access to credible, comprehensive information on the Holocaust to Farsi speakers is an important tool in the fight against Holocaust denial," said Avner Shalev, chairman of Yad Vashem's directorate.

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All over Israel signs are in Hebrew, English and Farsi. However, at Yad Vashem they are only in Hebrew and English. It is great to see the web used to correct this shortcoming. So many Muslims are subject to a diet of hate that it is a wonder how many see past it.
Read at www.arabsforisrael.com

The six million number is a rough estimate based on population figures in Poland & surrounding regions prior to WWII. It was estimated long before Eichmann. The numbers of gays and lesbians who died is more difficult to ascertain, though the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. may be able to get them.
Also remember that a large number of people who were not Jewish were also murdered. The difference--and this is key--is that Jews were specifically targeted and systematically slaughtered because they were Jews. The only others who suffered this were the Roma--and their murders are often not acknowledged.
The numbers, specifically with regard to Poland, are based on the number of citizens in Poland who died. These are most easily obtianed through the museum at Auschwitz--but if you could possibly also get them through the Polish Resistance Museum in Warsaw. You can also go through the AJCF, which is located in Oswiecim; or even through the National Heritage Museum in New York City

The Nazis were infamous for keeping detailed records of executions and concentration camps and they were discovered by Allied forces at the end of the war (particularly the Soviets and the British). Hope that helps a bit...

I never knew I would ever feel sorry and cry for the Jews. But after visiting the site, and learning about the fact, I cried non-stop, and very ashamed of the words of my "so called" leader in regard to Holocaust.
As behalf of Iran and Iranian, I would like to thank you for making us feel important and counted to make a site in Farsi. thank you for educating us, you have a beautiful country, I look forward to coming to your country soon in the near future after the collapse of my current regime.
This is what our first king, Cyrus the great (kouroush) said after freeing the jews:
"`The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Anyone of his people among you--may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up"
As Persians, we must follow Cyrus's foot steps.

Shalom vi berakha.ani yuda't mea't evrit.I am muslem.I am studing human rights and i believe human dignity.I love all the pepole in the world even yehoodim.I believe Holocust.How can i find complete information about this event.I like know more about holocust and yehoodim.
bekol Hakavod

Your question is answered more thoroughly by looking at the statistics kept by inidividual countries. If you look for "Primo Levy", a very famous Italian who wrote about his survival of Auschwitz, you can learn what happened to many Italian Jews. One French historian felt compelled to list all 77,000 French men women and children deported from France. A site:
www.Jewishgen.org/forgottencamps/generalvictims.html
has compiled information from various countries statistcs.
The most significant number is from Poland, and the Nazis themselves numbered the deaths at 3 million (approximately). These numbers were taken from deportations as compared with survivals. Their own statistics gave the average camp deportee 3 months of life.
Einstein said that what made him different from other people was curiosity.
I am curious as to whether Iranians really believe their leaders.
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As far as I can understand Vannessa in 5 is trying to show that the 6,000,000 figure is consistent with other independent data. I will try to explain her calculation
facts Vannessa cites independently from WWII history:
yearly population increase of jewish people ~1.2%
1933 world population ~15millions Jewish
1933 European population ~10millions Jewish
2005 world population ~15millions Jewish
We want to show that this is consistent with the fact that only 4million (of the 10million) Jews remained in Europe at 1945, making the total Jewish population in the world 9million in 1945.
Starting from 9million at 1945 and increasing at 1.2% a year we should have 9 x (1.012 to the power 60) = 18.4million Jews at 2005. So this is approximately the same as the 15m we expect. Probably the numbers in "the facts independent of WWII" are a bit innacurate (I guess the 1.2% figure is too high).
I must add that all this life and death arithmetic makes me feel uneasy.

Vanessa's post was in response to the 3rd post, which was interested in knowing the population of jews before and after the mass extermination-murder pratices of the Nazi's. This, as you know, was the Holocaust

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